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They can't replace Bulldozer fast enough.
by happycube 12y ago
They can't replace Bulldozer fast enough.
- tormeh 12y agoThe second generation had pretty good value for money. It's a bit long in the tooth now, but you make it sound like it was bad when it came out.
- Symmetry 12y agoSure, AMD had to price them so that they were competitive. From a consumer standpoint there were good potential reasons to buy them. From AMD's perspective, those were big chunks of silicon being sold for far less money than what Intel was able to charge for something that cost as much to manufacture. I doubt they made back their development expenses on them, though thankfully AMD had a lot of other products that worked out better.
- kjs3 12y agoI don't disagree, but my lab is full of st00pid cheap 8-core 8250 and 8350 chips running VMWare. I paid a fraction of what other folks paid for 4 core i7, and for my use case, I get lots more out of it. YMMV.